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What to do when an employee leaves, is reinstated, has a break in employment, works for someone else, is sick or goes abroad.
What to do when paying maternity pay if an employee leaves, becomes sick, dies, or is awarded a pay rise.
Manually calculate if your payroll software or GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
Find out how to manually calculate Statutory Maternity Pay if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not work out your employee’s payments.
Use this if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
Search reports on business payment practices: when invoices are paid, payment terms and practices
Use the PAYE tax calculator to work out how much Income Tax an employee needs to pay, in a pay period that is in the current tax year.
Find out when you have to pay Apprenticeship Levy and how to work out and report your payments.
Debts you owe (for example court fines, rent or Council Tax) can be deducted from your benefits – sometimes called third party deductions or Fuel Direct
Use this guidance if your payroll software or Basic PAYE tool does not calculate your employees' payments.
Annual equal pay audit reports of industrial and non-industrial salaries in respect of grades covered by MOD delegated pay arrangements.
Find out how to operate PAYE if you pay your employees with assets that can be sold or cashed in, like stocks, shares or cryptoassets.
How to pay the Soft Drinks Industry Levy, Soft Drinks Industry Levy penalty, or claim a levy credit.
What action to take when an employee leaves, becomes sick, dies, or if the child dies. Includes guidance when a child is born early and on paternity pay when adopting.
Some employment types like agency workers, directors and educational workers, have different rules for entitlements.
Information on measures introduced by the government to tackle late and unfair payment practices in both public and private sectors.
Bursaries and scholarships from universities or colleges including hardship funds.
Pay your Simple Assessment bill. Check the tax calculation from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and pay any tax you owe.
Using Compromise Agreements if your employee stops working for you and has a potential claim against you for statutory pay as wages or salary.
Employer guide to Statutory Paternity Pay or Leave - entitlement, eligibility, notice period, forms SC3 and SPP1, recover statutory pay.
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